The Material Hub is a place where people can hand in and receive used materials. The hub aims to be set up in the immediate vicinity of the DIY store in order to create a low-threshold and complementary service. The Material Hub project originated from my master thesis, now I am the project coordinator. It was nominated for the Bundespreis Ecodesign 2023.
As a freelance web designer and developer, I designed and developed the website for Fabularium - cultural and educational association with WordPress, Custom PHP, and CSS. I created the main pages, a blog, and a newsletter in two languages. I made sure that everything is easy to understand so that my clients could easily continue working on the site with the CMS.
This bachelor thesis investigates how an explorative and participatory design process can affect the development and design of new interactions and visualisations of a smartphone homescreen. It intensely deals with the research areas of one hand operation of smartphones and the personalisation of the displayed apps via app prediction. This work approaches the topic from a research and design perspective.
Upcyling only needs a beginning, I would like to tell you three different stories about me, how I came to Upcyling. I think that everyone has the potential to Upcyling. You just have to find the right way to Upcyling for yourself.
In the course "Methods of participatory software development" at the University of Bremen, we were introduced to different methods and their origins in scientific publications that we can use them for our project. Every week a member had to work more intensively with one method and prepare it for the seminar. In my work I intensively studied the Cultural Probes and made some myself.
With Orbit Angle UI, the management of apps on the smartphone becomes simpler and smarter at the same time - to achieve this, the concept was developed in a participatory way with the users. The result is a customizable system that sorts the apps according to the time of day and location and at the same time is fast and easy to use with one hand.
Utropica is a bonus system that promotes sustainability and also raises awareness of sustainability. The idea is to support people to buy sustainable. In return they are rewarded with premiums and gain knowledge for sustainability. This concept was designed and evaluated by a group of Digital Media Master and Bachelor students.
As a student web developer I implemented the website of the Collaborative Research Centre EASE at the University of Bremen and was involved from the very beginning. The focus was on the design of the front-end and on content management, at the same time I completed some back-end tasks. I had the opportunity to bring in my own design ideas.
A special task I received as a student web developer at EASE was to develop an installation for the exhibition in the House of Sciences in Bremen. For this purpose I created an interactive web interface which communicates the Collaborative Research Centre EASE and its tasks.
ScenARy was developed as an interdisciplinary group project of the University of the Arts and the University of Bremen. ScenARy is a mobile application that allows the creation of virtual stage sets for theaters within minutes. Scenes can be created live on set via Argument Reality. This project was developed under the supervision of first.stage Projekt of the University of Bremen and with the cooperation of the Landestheater Linz in Austria.